Global Nerdy » secrets http://www.globalnerdy.com Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Okay, I’m Convinced: A Believable Non-Porn Use for “Porn Mode” http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/05/10/okay-im-convinced-a-believable-non-porn-use-for-porn-mode/ http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/05/10/okay-im-convinced-a-believable-non-porn-use-for-porn-mode/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 17:13:24 +0000 Joey deVilla http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/05/10/okay-im-convinced-a-believable-non-porn-use-for-porn-mode/

I’ve always laughed at how the guys on the Internet Explorer 8 team bent over backwards trying to come up with non-porn-surfing uses for “InPrivate Browsing”, which I often refer to as “Porn Mode”. Somehow the examples they use, however practical and legitimate they are, fail to convince:

  • “I want to buy a present for my wife from an online store and want to keep it a surprise.”
  • “I want to check my account balance from an internet cafe while I’m on holiday.”

But this Post Secret postcard shows a believable use case for “Porn Mode” on browsers: 

"Post Secret" postcard made of the Google home page, showing a search for "signs of teen autism": "The least you could have done is erase the history. Now I know what you really think of me, Dad."

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